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DELMAR CLAUDE DENNIS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 28, 1948 – April 9, 1969
Service recordDelmar Claude Dennis, of Salem, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 45
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 28, 1948
- Home of record
- Salem, South Carolina (Oconee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1969; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 83 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 45
- RODNEY TAMOTSU FUKUNAGACorporal · April 9, 1969
- NATHANIEL HUDSONSergeant · April 9, 1969
- BRUCE THOMAS KINGFirst Lieutenant · April 9, 1969
- THOMAS EDWARD LEAP JRFirst Lieutenant · April 9, 1969
Same unit, same day
- GARY LEE CROSSSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 44
- BRUCE THOMAS KINGFirst Lieutenant · Panel 27W, Line 45
From Salem
- ROGER EUGENE MERCKPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.